Check this out:
Updates do not install successfully and your computer is continually
restarting when you try to install updates from Windows Update on a Windows
Vista computer.
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;EN-US;949358
"PeterFton" wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My brother has an HP notebook computer which was running updates and when it
> restarted to finish "Configuring Updates 1 of 3" and so on, It hangs on
> "Configuring Updates 3 of 3". Then the computer shuts down after about 2-3
> minutes and then restarts and comes back to the same screen "Configuring
> Updates 3 of 3". It is in a never ending loop and we can't seem to get it to
> finish. Is there any way around this?
>
> PeterFton
>